Welcome restless souls

I decided to start this blog one night watching "Operation LiveCrime" on VH1 classic.
Fellow 30-somethings will know it well...
Even if you were not even born in 1988 when Operation Mindcrime came out, and even if the thought of leather pant-clad, big hair havin mf'ers makes you cringe, it's worth a look for eerie lyrical truths from nearly 17 years ago (damn I'm old).

Specifically this line from the song "Speak" hit home:
"Seven years of power
The corporation claw
The rich control the government, the media the law
To make some kind of difference
Then everyone must know
Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow"

I remember back then as a junior in high school, this album was a neat 'story', it was the turn of the decade and things were swell. The economy was good and after a childhood of near-constant fear of nuclear annihilation at the hands of the 'commies', things were finally calming down.

Now I hear this and I don't see a story, I see prescience, and the fear of annihilation is back in my heart. Only now the scourge is not from some far off foe, but from those who have hijacked my Republic.

To borrow a fitting cliche: I'm mad as hell and not going to take it an longer.

I am now channeling the ghost of Thomas Paine.